Quotes About Curiosity

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

Laissez-vous mener. Nous n'avons plus l'âge des pourquoi.

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

When a scientist views things, he's not considering the incredible at all.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

Wat is er aanlokkender, geheimzinniger, duivelser dan een verboden boek?

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

How old was I before I realized there were other places besides right here?" Seven

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.